One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
AISHA TYLERI think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
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I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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